Saturdays Nights Thoughts
This evening I am just in awe of how the internet and technology has changed my life.My IO data brings it all Together
Tonight rather than watching Television, (which I believe will be a thing of historical note in just a few years) I find myself listing to a few of my Joe Franks (mp3 files) "Just Get Me Out of here " which I collected back in the Napster days.
At the same time I am using bittorrent downloading a first run movie from some off shore internet site.
Tomorrow evening when Deadwood I know it will be recorded in HD, avail for download. Who needs to wait for the show, when it can be downloaded, to be watched at future time.
I burned DVD for a friend which had on it 4 movies. One DVD having 4 complete movies !
Where is this taking us.
A little earlier this evening I found myself listening to internet Radio (thanks again to the IO data) this was BigUpRadio !
Back, years ago, when Bill Gates said that 640K would be enough ram for anyone to do anything with computers I had I think a 10 MB hard disk. That was a big old disk . It held my OS, my applications and my data, as well as many games as I could get, my BBS porno, with 5 megs to spare. I could understand Bill.
Ya times were good.
Now here in 2005 I carry in my pocket a 1 gig SD Ram drive, wich is not enough to even keep 1/10th of my record collection, and barely enough space to hold even one movie.
We have become Storage Whores, RAM Whores, Processing Whores, and its not about to stop here.
We have been living in a 32 bit world, and due out sometime next year are computers build on the 64 bit processing. This is going to take computer usage, storage needs to new levels of waste we could only image today.
My TB Server which I think today should last me for my lifetime probably will be outdated, and needing to be scrapped within.. What's your guess 3 years..
Thanks for reading.
Bob
posted by Bob Lee @ 8:05 PM
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